The Rocky Mountain Goat is a weekly newspaper covering east-central British Columbia, a rural area which includes the communities of Valemount, McBride, Dunster, and Blue River.

The funding allows school districts in rural and remote areas to add hiring incentives when recruiting new teachers.

Election season is in full swing as B.C. residents prepare to cast their ballots for the provincial general election, taking place on October 19th. The Goat interviewed each of the three MLA ...

As of Saturday afternoon, the wildfire located at the approx. 10km mark on the West Canoe Forest Service Road south of Valemount, has grown to 38 hectares. BC Wildfire Service says the fire, located ...

The Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship issued a flood watch for Blue River, Canoe River and tributary rivers around the north end of the Kinbasket Lake at 9:00 a.m. this morning. A flood ...

After two months of construction work and years of campaigning from the Parent Advisory Council, renovations to the Valemount Elementary School kitchen are nearly finished. The new space is roughly ...

Election season is in full swing as B.C. residents prepare to cast their ballots for the provincial general election, taking place on October 19th. The Goat interviewed each of the three MLA ...

The West Canoe Wildfire is now estimated at 27 hectares, instead of the 38 hectares BC Wildfire Service personnel previously calculated on Sunday. Fire Information Officer with BCWS Emelie Peacock ...

Weekly newspaper serving Valemount, McBride and the Robson & North Thompson Valleys ...

Following an alleged sighting of nutria – semiaquatic rodents originally from South America – near the Dore River, The Goat reached out to the Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship to ask ...

UPDATE: as of Saturday morning, the fire has grown to 38 hectares. A one-hectare fire was discovered Friday evening on West Canoe Forest Service Road, near Kinbasket Lake. The fire was discovered at ...

After a tumultuous summer of wildfires and landslides, there are no longer any properties under evacuation order in B.C. as of writing on September 2nd. The Robson Valley saw two evacuation orders ...